Mobile tyre fitting
in Tibbington.

A fitter at your car
in Tibbington.

Most tyre trouble in Tibbington is slow and domestic. A car sits on the estate through the week while its owner takes the train from Tipton, the pressure creeps down, and the flat turns up on the morning it is needed. Short hops along Bloomfield Road and Hurst Lane account for the nails. Either way, nobody needs to move the car: tell us the street, read out the size on the sidewall, and a tyre in that size travels up with the fitter.

Drives, bays and car parks.

An estate driveway makes the ideal surface, level and away from traffic. Where a house has none, the kerb outside will do if the car sits square and nothing is parked tight against its nose or tail. If the car will still roll, the Asda or Aldi car park is a fallback, provided the store raises no objection. Estate yards on Bean Road or Wellington Road suit vans. Not usable: the A4123, and the busy stretches of the A4037 where traffic runs close past a parked car.

Calls come from the residential streets between Upper Church Lane and the A4037, from the Owen Street side near the station, and from Summer Hill and Bloomfield just beyond. Works vans ring from the Hale Trading Estate, Bean Road Industrial Estate and the Wellington Road Industrial Estate. No public car park worth the name serves Tibbington, so the job happens where the car already is. Driveways come first. Terraced kerbs work when there is a car's length of clear road. Tipton station parking is the railway's, and a fitter only works there when the operator is content. The A4123 Birmingham New Road, under a mile off, is a dual carriageway nobody stops on. Sandwell runs no clean air zone at all.